uncle bernard

i am a warrior for truth. i will never surrender. never. stop. posting.

Again, you are the only person on here who can't figure this out. Even the people on your ideological side are making fun of you. Take the hint lol

it would be easier to talk about this if you actually said what you were talking about. if you’re not mad about the taliban retaking power, i genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about.

Bin Laden is Sunni and Iran is Shia. They hate each other.

There was no scenario where the Afghan army wasn't going to collapse.

There is no limit on charitable giving or distribution. Giving is at an all time high and Americans are more charitable than their peer nations. Yet...it's not working. Your contention is that if the government stopped helping altogether, charity would suddenly start accomplishing what it isn't accomplishing right now?

Charitable giving has never been higher and yet we perform worse than our peer nations who have higher taxes and universal programs. Maybe they're doing it the right way after all? Maybe trusting millions of isolated individuals to distribute resources rationally with no planning or cooperation isn't the most efficient way to do things? Plus, most charities are scams and tax write-offs for rich people.

A day after Blinken asks Al Jazeera to tone down its rhetoric, Israel kills the family of their Gaza Bureau Chief in an air strike. Israel has a long history of targeting journalists.

Because you live in our society. You drink our water, eat our food, use our roads, etc... If you don't want to chip in, go live in the woods by yourself.

No there aren't. You're describing a world that we don't live in.

Circling back to this, one of the most useful things you can understand is that we are much closer to a one-party state when it comes to foreign policy. Almost all of the real work is done by unelected, career administrators within the state department and intelligence agencies AKA "The Blob." Lawmakers come and go and put their stamp and spin on it, but the overall direction of our foreign policy is determined by these people.

No, it's reality. Sorry it hurts your feelings. When you institute a bunch of bureaucratic hurdles to make sure only people who "deserve" help get it, you inevitably filter out deserving people (as well as significantly inflate the cost of the program). People won't know the right forms, the right sites, etc... I think it is worth giving aid to someone who isn't helping themselves to your liking to make sure that every man, woman, and child who needs help gets it. That is a worthwhile trade off.

There was no way to do it that wasn't a disaster. It was stay there forever, or let them collapse on their own. How do you think they should have done it?

The real life consequence of this attitude is that you keep aid away from 10 people who "deserve" it, to prevent aid to 1 person who doesn't.

If after 20 years of being carried by the world's #1 superpower, you still can't stand on your own, you never will. And I don't think most people understand the level of grift and corruption in the "free" Afghan government. You know how bad you have to be to lose a popularity contest to the Taliban?

Personal charity is an inefficient and ineffective way of reducing poverty and hunger. That's just reality.

there was no "good" way to pull out of Afghanistan because we spent 20 years installing a corrupt puppet government that didn't have the support of the people. Biden pulling out and taking the heat of the unavoidable collapse was the most courageous thing he's done his entire life.

Another investigative team finds the Israeli misfire theory not credible.

You and all conservative media freaked out about Biden pulling out of Afghanistan and now you're going to pretend they're the peace party compared to the democrats??? lol

You might be the stupidest man I've ever encountered.

I think there's a difference between the definition of conservative you've taken on for yourself and how "conservatives in america" actually act more broadly.

And whenever they're reminded that this isn't true, that's where the aggrievement comes in. "They're letting gay people get married? That's an attack on MY marriage!" "My favorite beer is advertising with a trans woman? That's an insult to ME!" "Obama wore a tan suit? He doesn't respect ME!"

Defending existing hierarchies and social norms as natural and just.

Which of those things didn't happen?

Idk, to start they shit their pants every time someone says America's past might not be perfectly rosy. They throw fits about gay people kissing in commercials or on TV. They're currently obsessed with banning books that present opinions they don't agree with. The mere presence of a trans woman in a beer ad induced a months long psychosis. Currently, they're trying to get people who don't uncritically support Israel fired from their jobs (some liberal zionists are doing this alongside them too tbf). There was once a week long scandal because Obama wore a tan suit. Aggrievement is the central emotion of Conservatism.